Locations are selected and cleared (they just can't shoot strangers guerrilla-style), and when the girls show up at their producer-arranged jobs — basically freelance gigs at companies that have approved MTV's presence — they always have a project to do (and sometimes a plush office for the day, like the one Heidi gets at her SBE Entertainment Group job). "We pick and choose what we are going to focus on," says DiVello. Says Audrina, "It has to be interesting. They don't want us looking at magazines."
Ab Seite 7.
Talking with the girls, it's clear that each lives a kind of double life — a televised Hills life, and a non-Hills one, with separate friends and confidantes. "My friends who aren't on The Hills, most of them I've known since elementary school — they really know me, and I can totally trust them," says Whitney. "That's not to say I can't trust Lauren, Heidi and Audrina — they're great — but they're new friends for me.
Whether or not this matters to you is your decision. MTV appears happy to let real-or-not controversy play out. But you probably have to ask yourself this: If you're going to live in a world that indulges in fake reasons to go to war, fake Bosnia sniper-fire stories, James Frey, JT LeRoy, silicone implants, steroidal sluggers, backing tracks, Ryan Seacrest and Keeping Up With the Kardashians, then why get crazy about a little dramatic choreography on The Hills?
[1] nytimes.com
"The No. 1 question is, 'Is it real or not?' " Ms. Cavallari said.
Well?
"It's as real as any reality show," said Tony DiSanto, an executive producer of "Laguna Beach." "These are the real kids. The things they're saying are unscripted; it's what goes on in their lives. What we chose to show or not show is where we are editorializing. And just like any reality show, if two kids say they want to go out to dinner and we know that this one restaurant will not allow us to shoot in there then we can't get the scene. So we may ask them, 'You know what? Would you guys mind going to this one where they'll let us shoot?' They say yes or may say no. It's obviously their decision."
[2] nymag.com
Ever since The City was announced back in October, there’s been online speculation about the deal that was struck between MTV and DVF and what, exactly, Whitney’s “job” would entail. The presumption was that the network and the designer must have hammered out a mutually beneficial arrangement: fake job in exchange for product placement. But Cutrone tells me that Whitney was “a very real employee” at People’s Revolution who was paid a normal salary and showed up every day, even when she wasn’t being filmed. “The way it all happened is exactly how you saw it on the show,” she says, referring to episode eighteen of the last season of The Hills, where Cutrone is seen sitting Whitney down in her L.A. office to tell her about the DVF opening. Like many of the show’s scenes, there’s a stilted, surreal quality to the exchange, as if Whitney already knew she’d get the job and move to New York and star in her own TV show but has to feign surprise for the cameras. While Gately admits that the producers occasionally prompt the cast to discuss something important that wasn’t caught on film—in a way, of course, that seems spontaneous—the show’s creator, Adam Divello, says that no such thing happened in this case. “The truth is that Whitney was really in the dark,” he explains. “She didn’t know she’d be in New York, and neither did we.“
[3]ew.com
In fact, the stars' tabloid-worthiness forced producers to develop a policy against showing the girls as celebs — this isn't, after all, Newlyweds or The Osbournes. The season premiere does address the purported sex tape featuring Lauren and her ex Jason (Lauren denies it exists), but it's treated as a vicious rumor and the subject of an explosive confrontation with Heidi — not as the national news it became. We want viewers to watch Lauren and the girls as the characters we know instead of in a show about being the stars of The Hills, DiSanto says. You want to present the reality, but you don't want to take viewers out of the drama.
Ah, yes, the reality. The eternal question, when it comes to The Hills. Heidi and Spencer trash the series' accuracy and voice qualms about how they're depicted in Lauren's voice-over. They even claim they faked arguments last season: We don't fight in real life, Spencer says. The only fighting was for the show. But we're not playing that game this year.
Lauren, however, cops to no such antics. They can never make you say or do something, she says. You can always blame editing, but they can't do magic. And producers, for their part, swear they don't stage story lines — but does it even matter? I really believe viewers are watching it not necessarily as reality versus fiction, DiSanto adds, but as the story of these characters they're into.
[4] ew.com
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/04/post_7.html Spencer and Heidi Scream All Over ‘The Hills’
- Fake Job
- Heidi and Spencer's "relationship vacation." That bar fight was one of the worst displays of Method acting to ever grace The Hills. They were practically laughing while yelling at each other.
- Lauren's surprise at being offered a job at People's Revolution. Well, duh.
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/why-do-they-call-it-reality-on-mtv/ Why Do They Call It "Reality" On MTV?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/holly-cara-price/rubbernecking-ithe-hillsi_b_210110.html Rubbernecking: The Hills, Season Five Finale
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a157971/conrad-very-happy-to-leave-the-hills.html Conrad 'very happy' to leave 'The Hills'
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a157417/conrad-hills-bosses-forced-montag-reunion.html Conrad: 'Hills' bosses forced Montag reunion
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/a148823/mtv-confirms-conrads-hills-exit.html MTV confirms Conrad's 'Hills' exit
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/a148985/conrad-leaving-hills-to-lead-normal-life.html Conrad leaving 'Hills' to lead 'normal life'
http://www.examiner.com/x-6857-Philadelphia-Fashion-Examiner~y2009m6d2-A-farewell-to-Lauren-Conrad A farewell to Lauren Conrad
- After five seasons of The Hills, Lauren has decided to go on without the show. Any regular viewer could tell you that she's already seemed pretty absent in spirit in some of the later episodes
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-11351-The-Hills-Examiner~y2009m5d21-Examining-Lo Examining Lo
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-11351-The-Hills-Examiner~y2009m5d20-Examining-Lauren-Conrad Examining Lauren Conrad
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-11351-The-Hills-Examiner~y2009m5d27-Examining-Audrina Examining Audrina
http://spectacle.columbiaspectator.com/index.php/2009/06/01/heading-for-the-hills/ Finale Watch: Heading for The Hills
- But is anyone surprised? There have been few TV protagonists who have become as obsolete as LC has this season—her love life has remained strictly off-screen because of her actor boyfriend’s conflicting contract, she’s wiped her hands of the contrived drama The Hills’ minor players have stirred up, and has settled on a stalemate in her relationship with Heidi.
http://www.theinsider.com/news/2256014_Kristin_Cavallari_Making_Big_Bucks_on_The_Hills Kristin Cavallari Making Big Bucks on The Hills
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/06/05/kristin-cavallari-banks-63k-per-episode/ Kristin Cavallari Banks $63,000 Per Episode
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/06/05/2009-06-05_war_in_the_hills_.html Catfight in the 'Hills:' Audrina Patridge finding new enemy in Kristin Cavallari
- Offenbar gibt es trouble unter den Darstellern.